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CVE-2026-68561: Wekan: a low-privilege board member escalates to board admin and takes over a private board via the `sort` collection-allow rule

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-19 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Wekan is open source kanban built with Meteor. Prior to 9.89, the second Boards.allow({ update }) rule in server/permissions/boards.js called canUpdateBoardSort in server/lib/utils.js, which authorized any board member whenever fieldNames included sort. Because Meteor combines allow rules with OR semantics and applies the complete modifier, a comment-only or read-only member could send one Boards.update with $set values for sort, members, permission, and title, make themselves the sole board administrator, expose a private board, and evict the legitimate owner; the last-admin deny rule inspected only $pull and did not block a wholesale $set of members. Version 9.89 requires sort to be the only modified field and rejects $set member arrays that remove the last active administrator. This issue is fixed in version 9.89.

Affected products

• WeKan: before 9.89

References

• https://github.com/wekan/wekan/commit/dc135f6e7d59f9f56065cd5df83b1f123ea120bb
• https://github.com/wekan/wekan/releases/tag/v9.89
• https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisories/GHSA-xm8x-c8wg-jhmf
• https://github.com/wekan/wekan/security/advisories/GHSA-xm8x-c8wg-jhmf

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